And it is proof positive once again that significant parts of Wall Street are still a gambling casino.
As the curmudgeon put it, the hedge funds with their computerized trading have turned the investment world into a gambling casino.
Also in the US, efforts to expand casino gambling in Maryland recently concluded with voters approving the construction of a billion-dollar casino at the National Harbor, a 350-acre waterfront development near Washington DC.
The fact that Beasley has made video poker the hottest issue in the state reflects in part a nationwide backlash against most forms of gambling: it's evident from Oklahoma, where voters in February overwhelmingly rejected a referendum to bring casino gambling to the state, to Michigan, where voters may have a chance this November to overturn a plan for three Detroit casinos.
Casinos in California accounted for more than 25 percent of Indian casino gambling revenue nationwide.
In the US, politicians in Kentucky have been trying to legalize casino gambling since 2008, so far to no avail.
Mr. Cuomo had long said he was open to casino gambling in New York but didn't announce his full support until December.
Along with Nevada, which approved online poker, and New Jersey and Delaware, where other casino gambling passed as well, four states have pending legislation.
The mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, said yesterday that to help revive his city's economy he'd like to expand casino gambling in the city's major hotels.
Strait-laced Omaha, which has no casino gambling, pays many of the social costs of having casinos just across the Missouri river in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while sharing none of the tax revenues.
It was for this reason that in Monaco, home to the infamous Monte Carlo Casino, gambling has always been illegal for its own residents.
That means Second Life is as susceptible to gambling laws as any other online casino, says Sean Kane, an attorney and author of the forthcoming book The Law of Video Games and the Virtual World.
Mr Christie is said to be considering opening another gambling venue at the Meadowlands, which appals casino owners and politicians from the southern part of the Garden State.
One study on gambling addiction finds that living within 80km of a casino makes someone twice as likely to become a problem gambler.
Even before opening night, there was sharp disagreement among aficionados over Mayer's switch from the Renaissance Palazzo Ducale to a casino floor filled with slot machines, gambling tables and faux neon.
News of the donation came as Mr. Cuomo announced Monday that casino developers would compete to build a gambling hall in or around New York City, now that the Genting deal for the Aqueduct project had collapsed.
Although they lack a casino, the Hualapai have been affected by gambling.
Beginning with the Bellagio hotel, fourteen years ago, he has reinvented the look of the modern gambling hall by deliberately violating every previously accepted rule of casino design.
The MGM deal, which is contingent on a regulatory regime being established for online poker on either the federal or state level, helps define the competitive landscape as casino companies get ready to enter the online gambling business in the U.S. Boyd Gaming also announced on Monday that it has entered into an online poker alliance with Bwin.party.
FORBES: MGM Resorts Strikes Online Poker Deal With Bwin.Party
Speculation has been running high that Zynga would move into online gambling particularly with its Zynga Poker game and its recently announced Casino series of games.
FORBES: Zynga Finds Online Gambling 'Very Interesting' [Earnings Call]
Nagin would also have to get approval from the state and make a deal with Harrah's casino, which right now has an exclusive on gambling in the city.
You'll find Gaming Partners chips everywhere from the new Hooters Casino Hotel in Vegas to Steve Wynn's new gambling palace in Macau.
The Cambodian casino group he founded, NagaCorp, raked in profits as gambling revenue soared.
"I think it will be a domino effect, " said Richard Bronson, a former casino executive who now owns a firm pushing for online-gambling legislation in statehouses.
With billionaires and casino companies rushing to get ready for the potential of regulated online gambling in America, MGM Resorts on Monday announced an online poker alliance with Bwin.party digital entertainment, which owns PartyPoker, the second-biggest online poker service in the world, and the World Poker Tour.
FORBES: MGM Resorts Strikes Online Poker Deal With Bwin.Party
The state agreed to remove the eight-county region from the Cuomo administration's proposal for three new upstate New York casino resorts, while the tribe agreed to resume paying 25 percent of future gambling revenues to the state, with shares of that again going to Franklin and St.
Stern said the league contacted every casino in Atlantic City and Las Vegas and found no evidence Donaghy was involved in gambling.
The nonpareil of charming hypocrisy, though, would be the French police chief in Casablanca, Captain Renault - Claude Rains' fox with a heart of gold - who is forced by the Germans to close Rick's bar and casino, announcing: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Zynga is also applying for a gaming licence in Nevada, home of Las Vegas, in order to offer players a new suite of casino-style games on which they can bet real money, in conjunction with the online gambling firm Bwin.
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